Hot Nights, Cold Shoulders

In search of good material for her book, an aspiring writer accepts a summer invitation from her high school bully and finds, amid obscene wealth and old wounds, the forbidden love she never planned for. Isabel Martinez has everything she needs to finally write her book—except an idea. When her high school tormentor, the beautiful and moneyed Natalia Aranaz, extends an inexplicable invitation to spend the summer in her world of private jets and old money, Isabel's practical instincts say no, but her writer's instincts say yes. She arrives with a notebook and a plan, and immediately encounters Kieran O'Connor: a shy, handsome, and prodigiously talented Irish painter who has spent the last year haunted by a face he believes his sleeping mind invented and who, the moment Isabel steps through the door, understands that she was never imaginary at all. The only problem: Natalia's feelings for him are the worst-kept secret in the room. What builds...